I see several people here saying that they had "mild ms" for years - what is mild? Virginia, for example, says that she had mild symptoms for over 25 years, I think - how did you know? What things did you feel during those 25 years that you finally decided were actually mild MS symptoms? Did you feel mild things every day or did you instead, simply have infrequent attacks every year or two, but those were acute, and nothing inbetween? So does mild mean mild symptoms, but the symptoms are there all of the time, or does mild mean mild attacks when they occurred - or does mild mean infrequent attacks, but severely acute when they occur? Or something different? Clearly, a measure of EDSS is one criteria.

I think that I have seen different people indicating mild in different ways. Would unobtrusive and non-disabling symptoms on a daily basis be considered mild?